Terms of use & Privacy policy

Terms of use

1. General
Luvent Consulting GmbH operates a website under the main domain www.innovations4sustainability.org that primarily serves the purpose of promoting a network of companies. Furthermore, www.innovations4sustainability.org refers to that website which can be accessed by entering this or another transferring URL. All users are urged to read the following terms of use carefully. The consent of the user with the terms of use and other legal texts listed below is an absolute requirement for the use of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org. The use of this website implies that the user accepts the terms of use and all other legal texts. In the event that the user does not accept the terms of use, further use of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org is prohibited. A violation of all or some of the provisions of the below terms of use and other legal texts leads to the immediate, automatic termination of the authorization to use the website. In the event of such violations, Luvent Consulting GmbH reserves itself the rights to any and all claims (e.g. claims arising from warranty and/or from compensation for damages) against the relevant user(s).

2. Copyright
The use of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org is exclusively permitted for informational purposes of both a private and a professional nature. All contents on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org are protected by copyright. Irrespective of whether contents are offered free of charge or at a charge. In the case of chargeable content (e.g. chargeable download of studies), specific provisions exist that determine to what other usage rights exist. Any type of reproduction, distribution, rental, lending, publication, or other use of any type at all requires the explicit written permission of Luvent Consulting GmbH and is explicitly forbidden without such permission. An exception obtains when a specific provision explicitly establishes something to the contrary. Violations of this provision may in particular result in trademark, copyright and competition law consequences. Luvent Consulting GmbH expressly reserves itself all copyrights and the usage rights arising therefrom (rights to use work and permission to use work) on the contents offered on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org. All users are urged to read the copyright statement.

3. Data protection
Receiving company information places great importance on the careful handling of personal data. For this reason, the privacy policy of Luvent Consulting GmbH follows the principle of maintaining data confidentiality and emphasizes the protection of personal data in particular. All users are urged to read the provisions on data privacy protection.

4. Guarantee
Luvent Consulting GmbH cannot guarantee that the websitewww.innovations4sustainability.org can always and at all times be accessed. Technical errors and/or maintenance work as well as other causes (such as a re-launch of the website) can lead to the website www.innovations4sustainability.org being unavailable temporarily or over a longer period of time. Luvent Consulting GmbH assumes no responsibility for any specific availability or accessibility of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org. Luvent Consulting GmbH does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, legality, objectivity and up-to-dateness of the contents offered on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org. This is equally applicable to all products and services offered on the website, including associated descriptions and prices. Luvent Consulting GmbH may undertake changes, modifications as well as deletions of the website in its entirety and the contents presented on it at any time and without prior notice.

5. Liability
Luvent Consulting GmbH and the persons or companies related to Luvent Consulting GmbH shall not be liable for damages of any kind (e.g. lost profits, frustrated expenditures, damages due to loss of data, loss of earnings, claims based on enrichment law, legal advice or contract establishment costs). This disclaimer in particular applies to all damages caused by the use of the website, by temporary or permanent inability to use the website (downtime), by the limited availability of the website or the content presented thereon, by the erroneous presentation of content, by the presentation of third-party content or by the display of hyperlinks on www.innovations4sustainability.org.

Should any damages to hardware and/or software or to other data arise from the use of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org or their contents, Luvent Consulting GmbH does not incur any liability whatsoever. The user acknowledges that the services offered by Luvent Consulting GmbH are also offered along with the involvement of third-party network operators. The availability of services is therefore dependent on the technical provision of external network services. Luvent Consulting GmbH assumes no obligation to keep these services offered free from interruptions and able to be accessed at all times. The user is aware that Luvent Consulting GmbH has no influence on the possibility of the internet access, the transmission speed and the availability and stability of network connections and access. Luvent Consulting GmbH is entitled to interrupt the services for internal reasons such as maintenance services for a reasonable period.

There may be a temporary restriction of services, especially for reasons of force majeure, strikes, lockouts and orders by the authorities as well as due to technical changes to the systems of Luvent Consulting GmbH or due to other measures which are necessary for a proper or improved operation (e.g. maintenance, repairs, etc.). The user can derive no claims from this, however, Luvent Consulting GmbH will strive for rapid troubleshooting. The user is entitled to use the services of Luvent Consulting GmbH on his own respective risk and expense and is obliged to only use appropriate technical devices, such as appropriate computers, modems, etc. The user is also obliged to use the services only in accordance with legal regulations and standards and to refrain from any improper use of the services. Where services are rendered free of charge, Luvent Consulting GmbH reserves the right to provide these for a charge at any time after prior notice. Under no circumstance is there an entitlement to the provision of gratuitous services.

On the Internet portal, Luvent Consulting GmbH also and in particular offers users services (such as information) that are conveyed, created or otherwise provided by third parties. Luvent Consulting GmbH will undertake every effort to not infringe on any third-party rights, in particular, but not limited to copyright, exploitation, trademark or other usage rights through the operation of the Internet portal. However, Luvent Consulting GmbH does not guarantee that the services used by users (such as information) are free from any third-party rights, specifically but not limited to copyrights, exploitation, trademark or other rights of use. Liability for damages possibly resulting therefrom shall be excluded. In the event that Luvent Consulting GmbH offers free software downloads on the website, no liability whatsoever is assumed for their ability to function. More particularly, no liability is assumed for any (consequential) damages resulting from the use of the software (e.g. damage to the operating system).

Luvent Consulting GmbH endeavours to ensure the accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of price information contained on this website. In particular, the specifications are subject to periodic changes. Luvent Consulting GmbH, therefore, assumes no liability for the correctness, completeness and up-to-dateness of the price information contained on this website.

This general exclusion of liability applies irrespective of the asserted claim basis for slight negligence as well as for gross negligence where entrepreneurs are concerned. Limitation of liability extends to both contractual and non-contractual claims.

6. Changes
Luvent Consulting GmbH is entitled to change, adapt, or update these terms and all other legal texts at any time, in whatever form and without prior notice. The current version of these terms of use is binding. All users of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org should consult these terms of use and the associated legal texts, in order to keep track of any modifications. All users of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org expressly declare themselves in agreement that the currently valid version applies to users as soon as they visit the site again and do not object to the current version of the terms of use or other legal texts explicitly and in writing.

7. Hyperlinks
Luvent Consulting GmbH assumes no liability for linked websites and their contents. The information presented on hyperlinks on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org is a free service provided by Luvent Consulting GmbH. Luvent Consulting GmbH has no influence on the design or modification of the linked sites and the content they offer. Should hyperlinks on www.innovations4sustainability.org refer to third-party content, these do not constitute a rating of the linked content. Luvent Consulting GmbH, in particular, assumes no liability whatsoever for the accuracy, completeness, legality, objectivity and up-to-dateness of such content. The access to information that is reached via hyperlinks on www.innovations4sustainability.org is the sole responsibility of the user. All users are urged to also read the terms on Linking and Framing. In the event that users notice that a link refers to legally problematic content, they are asked to inform Luvent Consulting GmbH via email to info@innovations4sustainability.org about the link in question, so that it may be removed as soon as possible where necessary.

8. Legal texts
All other legal texts on www.innovations4sustainability.org that are referred to in these terms of use are an integral part of these terms of use and are subject to the conditions defined in their provisions whenever they do not contain more specific provisions. More specific provisions may exist e.g. in the case of paid content for use rights.

9. Jurisdiction / place of performance / applicable law
The competent court for Berlin (Germany) shall have exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes. Place of performance for all rights and obligations is the headquarter of Luvent Consulting GmbH. The substantive law of Germany under exclusion of the UN Sales Convention (CISG) and national conflict of law provisions shall apply exclusively.

10. Severability clause / miscellaneous
The invalidity or ineffectiveness of individual provisions of the terms of use shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions; in this case, those agreements are deemed made which are legally effective and come closest to the original objective of Luvent Consulting GmbH. Where a written form is required, the transmission by fax or e-mail satisfies this requirement.

11. Copyright statementCopyright on own content

All of the information displayed on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org (e.g. text, graphics, videos, music etc.) is protected by trademarks and/or copyrights in favour of Luvent Consulting GmbH. It is therefore not permitted to download, reproduce and distribute the website as a whole or in part. In particular, the rights of reproduction, distribution, renting, lending, provision and broadcast in any form whatsoever are owned exclusively by Luvent Consulting GmbH or third parties. Violations of intellectual property rights will be pursued by legal action.

Copyright on third-party content

Luvent Consulting GmbH operates services on the website www.innovations4sustainability.org which entail the use of third-party content (e.g., text, graphics, videos, music, logos), such as the content of advertising partners and contents of cooperation partners. This content can be viewed by all users. Any other use of multimedia files and texts of whatever kind requires the prior explicit consent of the author or authorized user. The author or authorized user reserves all rights to the multimedia files and texts. Luvent Consulting GmbH will inform the author or authorized user of copyright infringements where Luvent Consulting GmbH becomes aware of these. In any event, Luvent Consulting GmbH assumes no liability whatsoever for copyright infringements of third parties. Each partner (e.g. advertising partner, cooperation partner) indemnifies Luvent Consulting GmbH from all liabilities.

12. Linking & framingLinks from other websites to www.innovations4sustainability.org

Luvent Consulting GmbH allows (hyper-) links under the following conditions: they may not alter the contents of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org in any way, the recognition of the origin of all content must be guaranteed in full, and www.innovations4sustainability.org must be represented as linked websites in their entirety. The display of contents of the website www.innovations4sustainability.org through the use of frames is only allowed after prior approval. The linking of websites to content that is offensive, objectionable, contradictory to good morals or otherwise controversial/illegal is also prohibited. The contents of the websites that link to the website www.innovations4sustainability.org must fully comply with all applicable legislation (e.g. copyright law, advertising law, privacy law, criminal law). Above all, these websites must not represent their relationship to Luvent Consulting GmbH in a falsified, incorrect or illegal manner. A collaboration with and/or support of Luvent Consulting GmbH of whatever kind may only be the case if Luvent Consulting GmbH had agreed to it explicitly and in writing beforehand. In particular, the use of the Luvent Consulting GmbH corporate identity (e.g. logos) requires the prior approval of Luvent Consulting GmbH. Luvent Consulting GmbH reserves all rights in the case of illegal links.

Links from www.innovations4sustainability.org to other websites

In the linking to other websites, Luvent Consulting GmbH attaches the greatest importance on the fact that external content on the linked websites is not modified in any way, that the recognition of the origin of this third-party content remains intact and that the linked website is displayed in its entirety. When showing third-party content, a new browser window is opened in each case and no framing technique is used. Luvent Consulting GmbH accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the legality of the content of external websites which are linked to by Luvent Consulting GmbH. In particular, Luvent Consulting GmbH accepts no responsibility for any subsequent alterations of their content. The inclusion of a third-party mediated or operated website in the internet portal operated by Luvent Consulting GmbH does not constitute an endorsement or guarantee with regard to the services offered or contained therein, in particular, to possibly offered information, goods or services. Where Luvent Consulting GmbH refers to websites that are not operated by Luvent Consulting GmbH through links, this only constitutes an additional service for users, in order to allow them to have access to such websites. Luvent Consulting GmbH, however, assumes no responsibility and/or liability for the content of such websites in these cases.

Privacy policy

1. General
Luvent Consulting GmbH (also referred to as “Luvent”, “Innovations for Sustainability Partnership”, “INSPiRE”, “I4S”, “we” and “us”) places great importance on the privacy of companies, individuals from organisations (e.g. donors, beneficiaries, consultancy organisations, suppliers, etc.) and other individuals with whom we are in contact with (e.g. website visitors, prospective clients, potential start-ups, etc.). The processing of personal data therefore always takes place under the applicable data protection regulations (including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

2. What kind of personal information do we collect?
Depending on the relevant circumstances we may collect some or all of the information listed below.

2.1. Data from start-ups

Company name

Name of applicant

Position/Title of applicant

Email address

Telephone number

Company website URL

City and country of company

Description of product/service

Problem(s)/SDG(s) addressed by the company

How INSPiRE can support the company

Number of people employed in company

Previous year’s turnover

Logo

CV(s) of company’s founder(s)

Please note that the above list of categories of personal data we may collect is not exhaustive.

2.3. Data from website visitors
We collect a limited amount of data from our website visitors which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our website and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our website, the frequency with which you access our website, your browser type, the location you view our website from, the language you choose to view it in and the times that our website is most popular.

Please review our cookies policy, section 11 (“Cookies policy”), to learn more. If you contact us via the website, for example by using the contact form, we will collect all information that you provide to us, for example, your name and contact details.

3. How do we collect your personal data?
We collect expert personal data in three primary ways:

3.1. Personal data that start-ups provide to us
These may include the details you entered on the INSPiRE website or via an application form, as part of the registration process.

3.2. Personal data that we receive from other sources
We also receive personal data about start-ups from other sources. Depending on the relevant circumstances and applicable local laws and requirements, these may include personal data received in the following situations:

Our clients may share personal information about you with us

We may obtain information about you from searching for potential start-ups from third-party sources, such as LinkedIn and other sites

If you ‘like’ our page on LinkedIn or ‘follow’ us we will receive your personal information from those sites

3.3. Personal data that we collect automatically
To the extent that you access our website, we may also collect your data automatically or through you providing it to us. For more information please review section 2.3 (“Data from website visitors”).

Data may be provided by clients and start-ups directly, however, we may also collect it via third-party platforms such as LinkedIn. Client and start-ups must provide written consent to any further data collected by INSPiRE before it can make any use of it.

When you visit our website there is certain information that we may automatically collect, whether or not you decide to use our services. This includes your IP address (anonymous), the date and the times and frequency with which you access the website and the way you browse its content. We will also collect data from you when you contact us via the website, for example by using the contact form.

You have the choice to opt out of your data being stored when using the contact form, however, the reason we store data is to keep track of contact requests. Moreover, emails are not always 100% reliable as there are multiple points at which an email could be blocked or at which delivery fails.

We collect your data automatically via cookies, in line with cookie settings in your browser. If you are also a candidate or client of INSPiRE , we may use data from your use of our websites to enhance other aspects of our communications with or service to you. If you would like to find out more about cookies, including how we use them and what choices are available to you, please review section 11. (“Cookies Policy”).

4. Why and how do we use the data collected?

4.1. Data from start-ups
a) Investment activities
Our intention is to find relevant investors to be proposed and contracted, always with the start-up’s prior consent. We’ve listed below various ways in which we may use and process your personal data for this purpose. Please note that this list is not exhaustive.

Collecting your data from you and other sources, such as LinkedIn;

Storing your details (and updating them when necessary) in our database, so that we can contact you in relation to possible investments;

Providing you with our services (networking, events, access to finance, monitoring) and to facilitate investment process;

Assessing data about you against investment requests which we think may be suitable for you;

Sending your information to clients, in order to apply for investment or to assess your eligibility for investment opportunities;

Carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between us;

Carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between INSPiRE and third parties in relation to your investment;

Facilitating our payroll and invoicing processes;

Carrying out satisfaction surveys;

Verifying details you have provided, using third party resources, or to request information (such as references, qualifications and potentially any criminal convictions, to the extent that this is appropriate and in accordance with local laws);

Complying with our legal obligations in connection with the detection of crime or the collection of taxes or duties; and

Processing your data to enable us to send you targeted, relevant marketing materials or other communications which we think are likely to be of interest to you.

We may use your personal data for the above purposes if we deem it necessary to do so for our legitimate interests. If you want to know more about what this means, please review section 12.1 (“Legitimate interests”). If you do not agree to this, in certain circumstances you have the right to object and can find out more about how and when to do this in section 8.1 (“Right to object”)

b) Marketing and visibility activities
We may periodically send you information that we think you may find interesting in particular, we may wish to use your data for the purposes listed below, where appropriate and in accordance with any local laws and requirements. Please note that this list is not exhaustive.

to enable us to develop and market other products and services on the INSPiRE platform;

to display promotional excerpts from your details on the INSPiRE website(s) as a success story (only where we have obtained your express consent to do so).

We need your consent for some aspects of these activities which are not covered by our legitimate interests (in particular, the collection of data via cookies, and the delivery of direct marketing to you through digital channels) and, depending on the situation, we’ll ask for this via an opt-in or soft-opt-in.

Soft opt-in consent is a specific type of consent which applies where you have previously engaged with us and we are marketing other recruitment-related services. Under ‘soft opt-in’ consent, we will take your consent as given unless or until you opt out.

If you do not agree with our marketing approach, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and can find out more about how to do so in section 8.2 (“Right to withdraw consent”). We want to let you know that even if you have opted out from our marketing communications through our preference centre, it is possible that your details may be recaptured through public sources in an unconnected marketing campaign. We will try to make sure this doesn’t happen, but if it does, we’re sorry. We’d just ask that in those circumstances you opt out again.

c) To help us to establish, exercise or defend legal claims
In more unusual circumstances, we may use your personal data to help us to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

4.3. Data of individuals that work in organisations
We use your data for the purpose of contacting you for cooperation opportunities or running projects.

4.4. Website visitors
We use your data to help us to improve your experience of using our website. If you would like to find out more about cookies, including how we use them and what choices are available to you, please review section 11 (“Cookies policy”).

5. Who do we share your personal data with?
Where appropriate, we may share your personal data, in various ways and for various reasons, with the following categories of people:

Any of our group companies;

Individuals and organisations who hold information related to your reference or application to work with us, such as donors, tech hubs, other companies, academia and investors.

Tax, audit, or other authorities, when we believe in good faith that the law or other regulation requires us to share this data (for example, because of a request by a tax authority or in connection with any anticipated litigation);

Third party service providers who perform functions on our behalf (including external consultants, business associates and professional advisers such as lawyers, auditors and accountants, technical support functions and IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems);

Third party outsourced IT and document storage providers where we have an appropriate processing agreement (or similar protections) in place;

In the case of start-ups: potential clients, investors and other organisations to increase your chances of finding funding opportunities

If Luvent merges with or is acquired by another business or company in the future, (or is in meaningful discussions about such a possibility) we may share your personal data with the (prospective) new owners of the business or company.

The information you provide may be transferred outside your country to another country that does not have similar data protection legislation and may provide a lower level of protection for your information. By providing us with your information you consent such transfers.

If you do not agree and would like to withdraw consent, please review section 8.2 (“Right to withdraw consent”).

6. How do we protect your personal data?
We are committed to taking all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access. We do this by having in place a range of appropriate technical and organisational measures.

If you suspect any misuse or loss of or unauthorised access to your personal information please let us know immediately. Details of how to contact us can be found in section 15. (“Reasons and how to contact us”).

7. How long do we keep your personal data for?
INSPiRE does not keep personal data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed. You are able to request deletion of all your data at any time, review section 15 (“Reasons and how to contact us”) to gain information on how best to contact us.

8. How can you access, amend or take back the personal data that you have given to us?
One of the GDPR’s main objectives is to protect and clarify the rights of EU citizens and individuals in the EU with regards to data privacy. This means that you retain various rights in respect of your data, even once you have given it to us. These are described in more detail below.

To get in touch about these rights, please contact us. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within one month (subject to any extensions to which we are lawfully entitled). Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise.

8.1. Right to object
This right enables you to object to us processing your personal data where we do so for one of the following four reasons: (i) our legitimate interests; (ii) to enable us to perform a task in the public interest or exercise official authority; (iii) to send you direct marketing materials; and (iv) for scientific, historical, research, or statistical purposes.

The “legitimate interests” and “direct marketing” categories above are the ones most likely to apply to companies, website users, clients and other individuals in contact with us. If your objection relates to us processing your personal data because we deem it necessary for your legitimate interests, we must act on your objection by ceasing the activity in question unless:

we can show that we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing which overrides your interests; or

we are processing your data for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.

If your objection relates to direct marketing, we must act on your objection by ceasing this activity.

8.2. Right to withdraw consent
Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities, you may withdraw this consent at any time and we will cease to carry out the particular activity that you previously consented to unless we consider that there is an alternative reason to justify our continued processing of your data for this purpose in which case we will inform you of this condition.

8.3. Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR)
You may ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and request us to modify, update or delete such information. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. If you request further copies of this information from us, we may charge you a reasonable administrative cost where legally permissible. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request we will always tell you the reasons for doing so.

8.4. Right to erasure
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Normally, the information must meet one of the following criteria:

the data are no longer necessary for the purpose for which we originally collected and/or processed them;

where previously given, you have withdrawn your consent to us processing your data, and there is no other valid reason for us to continue processing;

the data has been processed unlawfully (i.e. in a manner which does not comply with the GDPR);

it is necessary for the data to be erased in order for us to comply with our legal obligations as a data controller; or

if we process the data because we believe it necessary to do so for our legitimate interests, you object to the processing and we are unable to demonstrate overriding legitimate grounds for our continued processing.

We would only be entitled to refuse to comply with your request for one of the following reasons:

to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information;

to comply with legal obligations or for the performance of a public interest task or exercise of official authority;

for public health reasons in the public interest;

for archival, research or statistical purposes; or

to exercise or defend a legal claim.

When complying with a valid request for the erasure of data we will take all reasonably practicable steps to delete the relevant data.

8.5. Right to restrict processing
You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. This means that we can only continue to store your data and will not be able to carry out any further processing activities with it until either: (i) one of the circumstances listed below is resolved; (ii) you consent; or (iii) further processing is necessary for either the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, the protection of the rights of another individual, or reasons of important EU or Member State public interest.

The circumstances in which you are entitled to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data are:

where you dispute the accuracy of the personal data that we are processing about you. In this case, our processing of your personal data will be restricted for the period during which the accuracy of the data is verified;

where you object to our processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests. Here, you can request that the data be restricted while we verify our grounds for processing your personal data;

where our processing of your data is unlawful, but you would prefer us to restrict our processing of it rather than erasing it; and

where we have no further need to process your personal data but you require the data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

If we have shared your personal data with third parties, we will notify them about the restricted processing unless this is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. We will, of course, notify you before lifting any restriction on processing your personal data.

8.6. Right to rectification
You also have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you. If we have shared this personal data with third parties, we will notify them about the rectification unless this is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Where appropriate, we will also tell you which third parties we have disclosed the inaccurate or incomplete personal data to. Where we think that it is reasonable for us not to comply with your request, we will explain our reasons for this decision.

8.7. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. If you would like to exercise any of these rights or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data (where consent is our legal basis for processing your personal data), details of how to contact us can be found in section 15. (“Reasons and how to contact us”). Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise. You may ask to unsubscribe from job alerts at any time. It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during the period for which we hold your data.

10. How do we store and transfer your data internationally?
In order to provide you with the best service and to carry out the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, your data may be transferred:

between and within Luvent entities;

to overseas clients;

to clients within your country who may, in turn, transfer your data internationally;

to a cloud-based storage provider; and

to other third parties, as referred to in section 5. (“Who do we share your personal data with?”)

We want to make sure that your data are stored and transferred in a way which is secure.

To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate procedures with the third parties we share your personal data with to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the law on data protection.

11. Cookies policy
Cookies denote very small files that are written from a website onto the visitor’s computer. They cannot be used to read other data on the computer. Websites use cookies to restore previous user settings and trace the history of visitor inquiries.

INSPiRE uses cookies to understand the needs of our website visitor and enhance the structure and the content of our website in the best possible way. The information is also used to further improve the navigation structure of http://www.innovations4sustainability.org/ and design it in a more user-friendly way.

It is possible that additional cookies may be placed by various other providers whose additional services are offered on our website. We have no influence on these providers and do not make use of their cookies for our own purposes.

By default, all cookies are accepted by any Internet browser. You can instruct the browser, however, to not accept cookies or to delete them automatically after each Internet session. Please refer to the appropriate instructions on the support pages of your browser manufacturer. You can also deactivate cookies of different advertising providers via the following website: YourOnlineChoices (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices)

11.1. LinkedIn
We use the LinkedIn “Follow” plugin to help us market our business using LinkedIn. The plugin detects whether you are logged into LinkedIn when you visit this website and uses this information to present appropriately-worded Follow messages with various other details from LinkedIn. The plugin creates or updates a number of persistent cookies and session cookies. We use the plugin as a convenience for our users and we use it on the basis that LinkedIn adheres to its privacy policy. Visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy for more information.

11.2. Xing
The “XING share button” is in use on this website. When accessing this website, your browser connects for a short time to the XING AG (“XING”) servers which provide the “XING share button” features (including the visitor counter). XING does not save any of your Personal Data when you access this website. XING does not store IP addresses, nor does it use cookies to monitor your behaviour with regard to the “XING share button”. Please visit the following website to view the latest privacy policy for the “XING share button” and other information: https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button/privacy_policy

11.3. PrintFriendly
By using PrintFriendly services (“PrintFriendly button”), you agree to their terms that are accessible here: http://www.printfriendly.com/terms and their privacy policy: https://www.printfriendly.com/privacy

11.4. AddToAny
Our website allows you to share content on several social media channels/networks via the AddToAny service. To this purpose, we provide “AddToAny” fields that you can use to set bookmarks and share website content on other social media platforms and services. Accessing AddToAny services entails the use of cookies. The generated data is transferred to www.addtoany.com. By using the “AddToAny” field you signify your consent to AddToAny processing and transmitting the data to AddToAny. Information about the scope of the retrieved and processed data is available at www.addtoany.com. According to its own privacy statement (https://www.addtoany.com/privacy) AddToAny does not save any personal data. You can only use AddToAny if you have already opened a user account in the respective social media service or network and have logged in successfully. In this case, we no longer assume any responsibility for the use of the AddToAny services and any data published therein, as the creation of a user account, i.e. membership of one of the used social media services, requires your acceptance of the relevant data protection provisions. Data will therefore only be collected by AddToAny if you access these services and have a respective user account. Usage of the AddToAny service is based on the data protection regulations of the respective social media services/networks to which you have logged in at the time of using the service. INSPiRE does not collect any data upon your use of the AddToAny service, nor does it receive any data from AddToAny relating to the use of the Share button. AddToAny merely provides an opt-out option for a large number of advertising networks. The opt-out can also be directly activated via http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. You can object to the use of your data by installing an “opt-out cookie”.

11.5. Google Analytics
The website of the Innovations for Sustainability Partnership (http://www.innovations4sustainability.org), uses Google Analytics for web analyses. By the use of this analysis service, cookies are stored on your computer as well.

The information generated, including the IP addresses of visitors, is sent to a server in the US and stored there. We use the function “_anonymizeIP()” for privacy reasons so that the transmitted IP addresses are processed only in abbreviated form and exclude a direct reference to individuals.

Google will possibly pass this information on to third parties where this is required by law or where third parties process the data on behalf of Google. More information about Google Analytics can be found online at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html.

INSPiRE uses the functions of Google Analytics to analyse site usage, e.g. in the form of anonymous evaluations and graphics on page views and visits, as well as for remarketing, reports on impressions in the Google Display Network, integration of DoubleClick Campaign Manager and Google Analytics reports on performance according to demographics and interests.

By using this site you consent to the processing of data gathered about you by Google in the manner and for the aforementioned purposes described above.

You can completely stop the tracking by Google Analytics by clicking here: Disallow Google Analytics to track me. For this objection to be undertaken permanently, your browser must accept cookies. Alternatively, you can object to the data collected through the use of a Google Browser-Plugin (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB)

12. Our legal bases for processing your data

12.1. Legitimate interests
Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR says that we can process your data where it “is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by [us] or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of [you] which require protection of personal data.”

We don’t think that any of the following activities prejudice individuals in any way – in fact, they help us to offer you a more tailored, efficient service. However, you have the right to object to us processing your personal data on this basis. If you would like to know more about how to do so, please review section 8.1. (“Right to object”).

12.2. Start-ups data
We think it’s reasonable to expect that if you are looking for investment opportunities and/or visibility for your company, you agree that we collect and use your personal data to offer or provide our services to you, share that information with prospective clients and assess your data against our inquiries from investors. Once it’s looking like you may get investment, your prospective investor may also want to double check any information you’ve given us or to confirm your data, qualifications and criminal record, to the extent that this is appropriate. We need to do these things so that we can function as a profit-making business, and to help you and other start-ups get the investment opportunities.

We want to provide you with tailored job recommendations to help you in finding new job opportunities. We, therefore, think it’s reasonable for us to process your data to make sure that we send you the most appropriate content.

We also need to use your data for our internal administrative activities, like payroll and invoicing where relevant.

We have our own obligations under the law, which it is a legitimate interest of ours. If we believe in good faith that it is necessary, we may, therefore, share your data in connection with crime detection, tax collection or actual or anticipated litigation.

12.3. People whose data we receive from candidates and staff, such as referees and emergency contacts
If you have been put down by a candidate as one of their referees, we use your personal data in order to contact you for a reference. This is a part of our quality assurance procedure and so we deem this to be necessary for our legitimate interests as an organisation offering job opportunities for experts.

If a candidate has given us your details as an emergency contact, we will use these details to contact you in the case of an accident or emergency. We are sure you will agree that this is a vital element of our people-orientated organisation, and so is necessary for our legitimate interests.

13. Consent
In certain circumstances, we are required to obtain your consent to the processing of your personal data in relation to certain activities. Depending on exactly what we are doing with your information, this consent will be opt-in consent or soft opt-in consent.

Article 4(11) of the GDPR states that (opt-in) consent is “any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.” This means that:

you have to give us your consent freely, without us putting you under any type of pressure;

you have to know what you are consenting to – so we’ll make sure we give you enough information;

you should have control over which processing activities you consent to and which you don’t. We provide these finer controls within our privacy preference centre; and

you need to take positive and affirmative action in giving us your consent – we provide a tick box for you to check so that this requirement is met in a clear and unambiguous fashion.

We will keep records of the consents that you have given in this way.

As we have mentioned, you have the right to withdraw your consent to these activities. You can do so at any time, and details of how to do so can be found in section 8.2.

14. Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims
Sometimes it may be necessary for us to process personal data and, where appropriate and in accordance with local laws and requirements, sensitive personal data in connection with exercising or defending legal claims. Article 9(2)(f) of the GDPR allows this where the processing “is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity”.

This may arise for example where we need to take legal advice in relation to legal proceedings or are required by law to preserve or disclose certain information as part of the legal process.

15. Reasons and how to contact us
If you suspect any misuse or loss of or unauthorised access to your personal information, if you want to access, amend or take back the personal data that you have given to us, withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data (where consent is the legal basis on which we process your personal data) or have any comments or suggestions concerning this Privacy Policy, you can write to us at the following address: